Word: placidness
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...Ecuador has demanded the withdrawal of our ambassador from Quito. We complied. And it was Ecuador's President Arismendi who delivered a stinging attack on U.S. economic imperialism in Latin America at the conference in Punta del Este last April. The speech was the only one which ruffled the placid self-congratulatory atmosphere pervading the meeting. And Plaza is a former president of Ecuador...
...before arriving at his floor because he found the "treacly tripe" of Muzak so grating. Dubbed "the Phantom" by musician friends because of his penchant for withdrawing into secluded rooms to commune with his gentle-speaking instruments, he would be happy to spend most of his time in the placid surroundings of his country house in Wiltshire, about 75 miles from noisy London...
Plum & Apricot. His latest show is also largely women-but, reflecting the fact that De Kooning has become a year-round resident of The Springs, near East Hampton on the tip of Long Island, they are now red-lipped exurban earth goddesses, bitchily toothy yet pudgily placid. These women blend into their surroundings of golden beaches, russet leaves and close-cropped lawns. And they are accompanied by other members of the family circle. De Kooning's Cybele has found a froglike mate, titled Man, a leering Cyclopean nude, contorted in some private courting ritual. Their bloated offspring, as seen...
This much, however, is clear today. The once-placid SPD will be torn by internecine warfare for some time; Berlin's economic problems will not be solved soon. But there is some chance that Germany's most fundamental political questions will be treated with far more dispatch and directness than the foundering Grand Coalition in Bonn can now provide. For the debate within Berlin could produce skilled and forthright Parliamentary leaders hardened by the travails of intra-party maneuvering. More important, it is certain that this development will stimulate the Federal Republic's now-sterile political debate. All Germany will...
...covering space shots at Cape Kennedy, Reporter John Wasik's fascination with the sky took him to nearby Green Air Park. With a parachuting club called the Falling Stars, Wasik, 29, a reporter for the Melbourne, Fla., Daily Times, made 17 weekend jumps, finding in his eerily placid descents a sense of euphoric freedom...